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Until recently, the six-floor building had many of its lights on. At least one county lawmaker, Legislator Heidi Nightengale, received complaints about the lights remaining on during the building's closure due to vermiculite contamination.

At the Ways and Means Committee meeting in May, Cayuga County Legislature Chairman Jonathan Anna revealed that most of the lights on the first, third, fourth and fifth floors have been shut off. The lights on the second and sixth floors remain on because the panels weren't accessible.

"I was disappointed it wasn't darker," Anna, I-Sterling, said.

Nightengale, D-Auburn, asked if the county would distribute a press release regarding the building's lighting to ensure constituents that it "isn't an oversight and we're not purposefully wasting their money."

"The taxpayers are paying for those lights for a building we can't get into," she said.

During an interview with 水果派AV, Anna provided additional information about the lights and the process of shutting them off. He asked one of the vendors working in the building to turn off the lights. When they didn't do it, he said, "I went in and shut them off myself."

Anna was accompanied by the vendor and did not access any contaminated areas. He was able to shut off the lights on the first, third, fourth and fifth floors because there is designated clean space in the stairwells of each of those floors. He could not access the switches on the second and sixth floors because decontamination chambers were built over the panels.

Some lighting, such as emergency lights and lights that operate off breakers, could not be shut off.

Anna stated that the lights were left on because "everybody thought they were coming back" when the initial closure occurred. When the building closed in May 2024, it was expected to be inaccessible for one week. That was extended to the summer after tests found vermiculite on multiple floors. By the end of summer, county officials said the building would be closed for two years.

"I made it a priority to get those lights off as soon as I could get a vendor inside to take care of it," Anna said.

Anna did not have an estimate for the cost savings from turning off the building's lights. Amanda O'Grady, the county's purchasing director, said at the Ways and Means Committee meeting that there has been a "massive decline" in utility usage at the office building.